UW Research

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

Participant Support

Direct costs for stipends or subsistence allowances, travel allowances, and registration fees paid to or on behalf of participants or trainees (but not employees) in connection…

Pass-Through Entity

Entity that provides a subaward to a subrecipients to carry out a portion of the prime award.  Related Resources Subaward Subrecipient Prime Award GIM 7: Sponsored…

PC

Program Coordinator

PDF

Portable Document Format

PE

Partially Executed

Period of Performance

Time during which the awardee is expected to complete award activities and to incur and expend approved funds, typically indicated by the start & end date…

permission (parental)

The agreement of parent(s) or guardian to the participation of their child or ward in research.

PHS

Public Health Service

PI

Principal Investigator See Principal Investigator (PI) Personnel

PIT

Process Improvement Team (UW)